A MOTHER who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death has lost a final bid to win her freedom.

Angela Gordon, 36, and boyfriend Junaid Abuhamza, 32, tortured Khryra Ishaq at their Birmingham home before she died from an infection brought on by malnutrition.

The pair were convicted of manslaughter last year, with the mum receiving a minimum 15-year sentence while her partner was jailed indefinitely.

Gordon had asked the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to probe her claim that she was victim of a miscarriage of justice.

But she is now facing up to life behind bars after failing in a bid to have her case sent to the Court of Appeal.Tragic Khyra died after being found unconscious at her Leyton Road home on May 17, 2008, by ambulance staff. She weighed just 2st 6lb.

Gordon and Abuhamza were found not guilty of murder at Birmingham Crown Court in March last year after prosecutors accepted their defence of diminished responsibility.

Both child killers later lost appeals against their sentences.

Gordon successfully applied to the CCRC last November to have her manslaughter conviction formally reviewed. The independent public body has the power to refer convictions back to the Court of Appeal.

But the commission has now written to Gordon to inform her that it would not be taking her case forward.